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Making Nice

  • Alan Haehnel
  • Short Play, Comedy, Present Day
  • 8M, 4F
  • ISBN: 9780874401059

The curtain opens on Cymbeline, lost in the dark woods, calling plaintively for rescue as wolves prowl closer and closer. All of a sudden, No, no, no! rings out from the back of the theater and a disgruntled, dictatorial director barges down the aisle, furious at the actress, the cast, and the entire crew!

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Description

  • Short Play
  • Comedy
  • 40 minutes

  • Time Period: Present Day
  • Target Audience: Pre-Teen (Age 11 - 13), Teen (Age 14 - 18), Senior, Adult
  • Set Requirements: Exterior Set
  • Cautions: No Special Cautions

  • Performance Group:
  • High School/Secondary, Dinner Theatre, College Theatre / Student, Community Theatre
The curtain opens on Cymbeline, lost in the dark woods, calling plaintively for rescue as wolves prowl closer and closer All of a sudden, No, no, no! rings out from the back of the theater and a disgruntled, dictatorial director barges down the aisle, furious at the actress, the cast, and the entire crew! She commands, No one leaves the theater until this production is beaten into shape. The abused and beleaguered cast and crew are forced to comply.

Enter two representatives from OSHA theatre division: OSHAT. The new government agency charges the director with jeopardizing the emotional safety of the cast and crew. Barbara, who had been accustomed to using her venomous tongue at will suddenly has to make nice or have the production shut down. Then problems avalanche: the show's horse looks like a mutated camel; the lead gets a rampant case of the giggles; the understudy doesn't know her lines; disaster follows disaster, and Barbara isn't even allowed to yell.

Characters

  • Casting: 8M, 4F
  • Casting Attributes: Room for Extras, Color blind casting, Cross gender casting, Expandable casting
  • Casting Notes: All characters but Jason and Claire could be, with changes in character names, played as either male or female.

  • BARBARA CRAMER - the director
    ELLEN - the stage manager, "Zeitgeist"
    JASON - plays Marcus
    MARLY an OSHAT representative
    STEWART - Marly's partner
    HETTY - the costume designer/builder
    CLAIRE - plays Cybeline
    TIMPANI PLAYER
    HORSE HEAD
    HORSE BUTT
    MARY - a wolf who is also Claire's understudy
    SARAH - a wind woman
    JANET - a "techie"
    CHRIS - a wind woman
    NORM - a wolf
    ROBERT - a wild
    PETER - an old man
    SALLY - an old woman
    SHIRLEY - a wind woman
    MARTHA - an old woman
    DONALD - a wolf
    MARIA - a woman in white
    BRIDGET - a woman in white

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    The curtain opens on Cymbeline, lost in the dark woods, calling plaintively for rescue as wolves prowl closer and closer All of a sudden, No, no, no! rings out from the back of the theater and a disgruntled, dictatorial director barges down the aisle, furious at the actress, the cast, and the entire crew! She commands, No one leaves the theater until this production is beaten into shape. The abused and beleaguered cast and crew are forced to comply. Enter two representatives from OSHA theatre division: OSHAT. The new government agency charges the director with jeopardizing the emotional safety of the cast and crew. Barbara, who had been accustomed to using her venomous tongue at will suddenly has to make nice or have the production shut down. Then problems avalanche: the show's horse looks like a mutated camel; the lead gets a rampant case of the giggles; the understudy doesn't know her lines; disaster follows disaster, and Barbara isn't even allowed to yell.

    		$24.95

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